Do they knowingly feed it to us while there are playmakers? They will pull it down, clean it up, then suddenly one night they will eat the cake.

Bech32 is a Bitcoin address format proposed by Pieter Wuille and Greg Maxwell in BIP 173 and later amended by BIP 350. Besides Bitcoin addresses, Bech32 can encode any short binary data. bech32-(not-m) encoding

“Bitcoin is a worldwide problem, but data centers in Iceland use a significant portion of our green energy. A new proposal to boost wind energy would “prioritise” green industries to achieve carbon neutrality. Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, which consume a large portion of our energy, are not part of this mission.” —Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir

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Whitening the Sky: light pollution as a form of cultural genocide Duane W. Hamacher, Krystal de Napoli, Bon Mott Light pollution is actively destroying our ability to see the stars. Many indigenous traditions and knowledge systems around the world are based on the stars, and the peoples’ ability to observe and interpret stellar positions and properties is of critical importance for daily life and cultural continuity. The erasure of the night sky acts to erase indigenous connection to the stars, acting as a form of ongoing cultural and ecological genocide. Efforts to reduce, minimise or eliminate light pollution are being achieved with varying degrees of success, but urban expansion, poor lighting design,and the increased use of blue-light emitting LEDs as a cost-effective solution is worsening problems related to human health, wildlife,and astronomical heritage for the benefit of capitalistic economic growth. We provide a brief overview of the issue, illustrating some of the important connections that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia maintain with the stars, as well as the impact growing light pollution has on this ancient knowledge. We propose a transdisciplinary approach to solving these issues, using a foundation based on indigenous philosophies and decolonising methodologies.

"The cardinal misstep in the crypto narrative lies in the audacious assumption that governments, those age-old architects of monetary policy, would willingly cede control. Monetary system is the bedrock of a nation’s economic sovereignty, the scepter of its financial power. To expect governments to relinquish this is to misunderstand the very fundamentals of political economy." 😆 Like they have a choice

You raise a significant point about the potential for the abuse of power, a concern that has been proven valid time and again throughout history. Indeed, idealistic notions of collaborative decision-making can be naive if they don't account for the ways in which power dynamics, often skewed, operate in the real world. The question of who gets to make decisions about the ethical and societal implications of new technologies is fraught precisely because of this. Any system of governance is susceptible to being co-opted by those with the most power, and that power is not always wielded responsibly or ethically—as the example of Stalin, among others, shows. So, while the multi-stakeholder approach may seem like a balanced solution, it's important to remain critically aware of how easily such systems can be manipulated or bypassed entirely by those with the resources and intent to do so. The challenge, then, is not just to decide which institutions should have a say in these matters, but also to construct mechanisms that can genuinely counteract the concentration of power and provide some level of protection against its abuse. This is a complicated task with no easy answers, but its difficulty doesn't make it any less crucial.

This is why Kant also speaks of rationality and the importance of acting in accordance with reason. He argues that rational beings have intrinsic worth and should be treated as ends in themselves, not as means to someone else's ends. Thus, a purely self-interested action—like wanting to get one's own way at the expense of others—would fail the test of the categorical imperative on the grounds that it treats others merely as means to an end.

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